"Ah fuck my balls!"
The random guy's big balls is stuck in the ladder, the boy didn't notice this earlier but now he for some reason did.
There are plentiful of people lining up in the ladder, just waiting to climb down and descend, but though they were in so much hurry, this commotion grabbed the attention of many people.
"Are you kidding me?! How did you fuck this up so bad?! Hurry up and get your balls outta there, there are so many people in the line!!"
The boy scolded.
"I know! I know! Just hang on!"
The random dude tried to get his balls outta the ladder, and it worked!
But bad news, his future kids ain't gonna survive that shit.
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"We've surrounded you now thief! Behind you is the edge of a cliff, its a dead end! If you hand us back that Ancient Skyline Ball and maybe we'll consider sparing your life!"
The chieftain of the guards said.
And hundred guards are behind him, surrounding the thief in any direction, all with an ill intent to capture him.
Every single one of them had a glare in their eyes, though they may look solemn outwardly but internally, they felt glad that they have successfully surrounded this thief.
Each of them risked their life running around and catching this thief for 2 hours, they know that even though there is a higher risk getting dragged down within this sky island but they chose to run and chase after the thief.
They looked at the thief cautiously, though they may surrounded him, they still didn't dare to attack him just yet, who knows what the thief is gonna pull out next? He may be the only one here, but that is the reason why this is dangerous.
The thief is confident on taking the Ancient Skyline Ball alone, this proved how prepared he is in this little heist.
The townspeople lived here for many decades and there is no way its gonna crumble down within the hands of this thief! That thought made the guards and even their chieftain more determined to capture him!
"I can't let my home and memories be destroyed!!"
The thief already has so many holes within his cloak, he has been stabbed many times in the back that he had barely evaded some of them, resulting on the many holes.
The reason being is that there is a possibility of thieves having a flight magic abilities that enables them to grow wings and fly up the skies.
The moment the chieftain noticed that there aren't any blood dripping behind the thief's back, he was already clear that the thief doesn't have any wings, and had already thought that this situation is within his control.
The thief sighs and then pulled something out of his back.
The hundred guards suddenly backed away and wore a more solemn expression this time
"Watch out he is about to pull something!"
"Be prepared!!"
The thief then revealed his hand and was revealed to be holding something.
"A snack?"
The thief then sat in front of them and then casually ate his snack in peace, as it they weren't there!
To them, this move was a huge mockery out of the guards who is risking their life!
"This motherfucker!"
"He is just having a picnic there, while we are left here starving to death by this mf!"
This theatric act made some of the guards enraged, flabbergasted, and most importantly discombobulated to the point that the portion of the guards that surrounded him charged at him out of spite.
The chieftain then suddenly widened his eyes with this sudden commotion and then turned to his men "Wait don't attack yet!"
But to his expectations, this then created a gap for the thief to escape.
I mean, who can blame the guards for being mad af? They just did a whole roundabout cat and mous chase with this thief for a whole hours, and then the thief just did that in front of their hungry and exhausted ass, even the chieftain itself is already exhausted with this stupid chase.
The chieftain looked behind and cursed in his breath "Fuck!"
"He just juked us and is now planning to escape towards the big ladders!"
"Hah! Does this thief think we are dumb as to not put any guards in those 5 big ladders?!"
However, the thing is, the thief doesn't intend to go to the ladder, and instead he wants to do another cat and mouse chase again with the chieftain and the guards.
So that once this island collapses along with them, he will use the flight potion that will run out in 6 hours in usage he consumed in order to escape here and fly away to the skies, and just in case they have fallen for his trap for about an hour later -- falling down with the island.
He can loot their corpses and sell some of their stuff on secret illegal marketings.
But after going on a chase with this thief once again, they just realized that the thief wasn't heading for the ladders but was going on a roundabout chase again within this island, some of them said
"Chieftain you must've realized right now that he is playing with us right?"
"This guy! He really wants to kill us!"
"The fact that he actually is making us go for another roundabout, I have a bad feeling that he has some sort of flight potion!"
The thing is, the thief dragged them on for a whole ass roundabout for about 5 whole hours, and he hasn't revealed the flight potion yet to them, who knows that he has that the entire time? They stabbed his back many times that it created an illusion that he can't fly.
Upon realization some of the guards left the chase and hurriedly went back to find the five big ladders and escape.
The chieftain looked at them "Hey you fuckers! Get back here and do your job!"
This village doesn't have any criminals or thief for many years, additionally their island has the least resources available out of all the other sky island out of there!
The only thing for them to gather more resources is towards the 5 big ladders, but accident always happens there, rendering it very risky to come down.
Additionally flight potions are pretty rare within their areas, plus they have limited usage of such things in here, so there is no way in hell are they going to use that just to be consumed for only a day!
As for the wings, you either have to kill a strong aerial beasts or be extremely genetically gifted!
When the thief saw some of them escaping, his smile turned into a cold grin
"Hmph, thinking of escaping even if you have already fallen to a trap? Insects truly cannot decipher a trap already tied beneath their legs..."
The thief suddenly turned a U-turn and chased after the remaining 'leftovers'
"Where the fuck do you think you're going?!"
The their laughed and them chased after the guards that is already attempting to escape, each of them turned their heads.
"What the fuck?! Why is he going after me?!"
"Run bitch run! This thief is crazier than we had fucking expected!!"
But to their unfortunate demise, this thief was faster than they had expected!
"Woah woah woah WOAH WHAT THE FUCK!"
Shing! Dead and head decapitated!
The thief now has his clothes bloodstained due to his killings, he looked at the direction of the other guards and smiled coldly at them, and then charging towards them!
One by one the thief continued to kill, the screams of the chieftain's men has become the sound of the wind that breezes coldly down his skin.
The chieftain tried to stop him, used to be calm now had anger and rage burning in his eyes
"YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!! I'LL TEAR YOUR SKIN TO PIECES!!"
He kept on remembering that time he and his guards hang out together, going out on a drink and taking turns in telling funny stories to them.
He had interacted with almost all of them to the point that he had remembered all of their names.
Though the guards are tons of them, to him, they aren't just guards and his workers. No, to him they are his friends that he had interacted to for so many years already.
And though he hadn't interacted with some of them yet, his reputation of a tough yet friendly chieftain had spread throughout the whole sky island within their small remote village.
And seeing all of the dead comrades he had interacted with for many years by a certain thief right in front of his eyes!
They used to live, laugh and tell stories to him, whether it'd be sad one, funny one, or a more serious one.
But now all they tell him is a cold silent, a story with no words.
"YOU FUCKER!!!" Seeing all of this, he had lost his rationale and as he couldn't bear the sight of his dead comrades being slain in front of eyes.
The other guards suddenly tried to stop him
"Stop it Chieftain stop! If you fight him you're the next one who is turned into a meat paste by him too!!"
"We can't bear losing you too chieftain! We can't bear losing you too!!"
"There is 2 hours left before this whole island collapses!! We need to focus on escaping now!!"
At times like this, in a deadly situation, and though some may have a higher position in a pledge to protecting the village, that being of a guard.
Once they are faced with a lose-lose scenario, if the home they were supposedly defending had already been destroyed, their instinct always tell them to, "RUN!" and avoid the face of danger, abandoning their obligation as a guard who protects their village who's already fated to be in destruction.
After all, we only have one life, and we just can't bear to waste the time we have prematurely on protecting something that is clearly doomed to die by nature!
If one still fights and the one he pledged to protect is already destroyed, he'd either chose to die for pride, or straight up an idiot
Additionally, the chieftain don't know what to do now, he just watched the thief kill his friends in front of his own eyes.
He just wants to tear the thief into small pieces until he has quenched his hatred, but at the same time he also wanted to live!
Few ones are willing to risk their life just for their pride and glory, but majority rather not face death for no purpose
The chieftain thought then suddenly remembered the one thing most important to him, his family who is waiting for him. Whenever he always goes home in a daily job of helping other villagers with their job, he is always greeted by the warm smile of his wife and his only 2 remaining kids.
"Welcome home..."
The comfortable feeling of being in his cottage is what he wanted to feel at times like this, he hasn't lost everything yet! He still has a home to go through! How can he be so idiotic as to get so emotional suddenly and immediately stepping into a death trap?! Those fallen friends he has may be very important to him, but most of all, he hates seeing his family be saddened! Because of him!
The chieftain finally snapped out of it and can only look at the dead corpses of his fellow men painfully
"You may find peace in heaven..."
He muttered under his breath and then went back to facing his few remaining guard
"Alright let's get out of here!"
The chieftain finally said and went back to his rationality, facing his fellow guards once again.
"Chieftain!"
The guards were relieved to see this!
"We'll follow your orders Chieftain!"
"Yeah let's get out of here alive!"
The thief looked at them in the distance with his indifferent eyes and his mouth formed into a deadly grin....